The garden eel is harmless and actually pretty cute. But get a bunch of them together and things start looking a wee bit creepy. [Narrator] Oh, nothing to see here. Just a sea floor turning into a ...

As a solution, the aquarium is calling on fans of its 300 garden eels to check in with them virtually, in what it referred to on Twitter as a “face-showing festival.” “Here is an urgent ...

For garden eels, this was not at all the case. In calm water, the eels take any shape that works, striking in any direction at the tiny animals in the water.

If you want to Facetime these eels (and, yes, you’ll need the Facetime app on iOS), the aquarium is asking that you do so during May 3-5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tokyo time.